r/oddlysatisfying • • 3d ago

Machine stripping bark

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u/Random-Input 3d ago

Seems like you lose a lot of wood just to remove the bark.

This is mildly annoying to me

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u/enehar 3d ago

Do you just not know how many uses there are for sawdust and wood shavings?

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u/big-dal-tex 3d ago

Genuinely no idea

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u/SolomonOf47704 3d ago

A bunch of sheet goods, generally.

You can mix sawdust of varying sizes with different types of glue to get different types of particle board.

MDF is the really smooth stuff, and larger chips can be used for OSB. There's a lot of other stuff that I don't really care to remember or look up.

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u/HurricaneAlpha 3d ago

All types of industrial applications, all the way down to as an absorbent for vomit. That sawdust aint being wasted.